New Orleans, Louisiana
Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Azrou, Morocco
This abandoned hospital facility is associated with regicidal conspiracies and paranormal activities.
Washington, D.C.
One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.
Washington, D.C.
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Decatur, Georgia
A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.
Schroon Lake, New York
This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground
Ōsaki, Japan
A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.
Seoul, South Korea
Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.
Lemery, Philippines
The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."
Denpasar, Indonesia
A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.
Port Orange, Florida
Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.
Nikko, Japan
This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.